![]() ![]() ![]() 809, etc.) sends Ann Marie from Maryland to Washington, where she hides for months in a garret, then on to relatives in Canada, where she drops permanently from sight. Only occasionally manipulating actual events, Carbone (Starting School With an Enemy, p. Knowing that her harsh master will never willingly give her freedom, Ann Marie resolves to steal it when the opportunity-a staged kidnapping, at the hands of an abolitionist, Jacob Bigelow-arises. Child of a free father and a slave mother, Ann Maria Weems grows up in the warmth of a loving family that is suddenly torn apart when her brothers are sold South and money raised by abolitionists arrives, but only enough to purchase freedom for her mother and sister. PLB 7-X This compelling tale of a passenger on the Underground Railroad is entirely populated with historical figures not since Gary Paulsen’s Nightjohn (1993) has the physical and emotional impact of slavery been made so palpable. ![]()
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